Originally Posted by
oldbobcat
For the record, Taiwan is the premier producer of consumer-grade products of carbon fiber. There is more expertise in mass producing bicycle frames here than in any other place in the world. It wasn't always this way. I remember stories about Scott, not supervising the production of CR1s closely enough 20 years ago, but those days are long gone.
Some of the solutions recommended here are pretty radical for never having seen the problem in person. I would not pass a verdict on this for until I checked the alignment with a dropout alignment tool.
Obviously nobody should try to cold-set a carbon fork, but I'd want to see what it looks like before going further.
This needs to be repeated. Carbon structures should not be attempted to be aligned by bending. Even with this added caution note someone here will not read the text and instead will see the images and think it's the right process for their fork.
All this focus on dropout alignment and using "H" tools to check and/or correct, is nearly meaningless here. Drop outs not being parallel is the least important aspect of alignment, there's no bike steering/tracking issue when the drop outs are
only non parallel. But since we have the tools to see non parallel drop out condition we tend to place importance on it and under value the other alignment aspects (which have far fewer tools to check for). The only "safe" aligning is by removing drop out slot material, the filing that a couple of us have mentioned. And this blade length adjustment will only correct one aspect of misalignment. Andy